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High ALAS2023-2025-1005 1 CVE

Important: python-setuptools security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jun 4, 2025 · Updated Jun 10, 2025

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-47273: setuptools is a package that allows users to download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages. A path traversal vulnerability in `PackageIndex` is present in setuptools prior to version 78.1.1. An attacker would be allowed to write files to arbitrary locations on the filesystem with the permissions of the process running the Python code, which could escalate to remote code execution depending on the context. Version 78.1.1 fixes the issue.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-setuptools 0:59.6.0-2.amzn2023.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2023 python3-setuptools-wheel 0:59.6.0-2.amzn2023.0.6

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.7
    CVE-2025-47273 Public exploit

    setuptools has a path traversal vulnerability in PackageIndex.download that leads to Arbitrary File Write

    setuptools is a package that allows users to download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages. A path traversal vulnerability in `PackageIndex` is present in setuptools prior to version 78.1.1. An attacker would be allowed to write files to ar…

    pypa setuptools kserve-storage-controller datadog-agent-7.77 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Wolfi PyPI

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-47273.html